Actual libertarians Julian Sanchez and Dave Weigel have some fun with Jennifer Roback Morse's...er, contrarian claim that Rick Santorum is a good choice for libertarians based on his fealty to the policy positions of...the Family Research Council. The most obvious question is why NRO would...
Author: Scott Lemieux
As more than one person has said, my favorite part of Eric Boehlert's Lapdogs is Chapter 3, his fierce and detailed takedown of The Note. Between its endless pro-Republican spin,.
I've neglected to say that the Drum Major Institute has a terrific new blog intended to counter the rhetoric of the "tort reform" movement, to which I will be an.
Terry Teachout recently had a WSJ piece about the bankruptcy of Tower Records. Alas, this one will be fatal (and, worse, I found out only after the jazz sections at both the 4th St. and Lincoln Center locations had been all but picked clean.) After...
Saith the Derb, in the midst of the kind of circus that compels him to be the voice of reason. Let's take increasingly pathetic Republican hatchet-woman Ann Althouse, who claims.
The Happy Feminist and Jessica Valenti draw our attention to a remarkable-in-a-bad-way ruling by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. The court threw out a rape conviction because the.
Shorter Jon Henke: "You have no reason to object to being assaulted for asking questions of your Senator, if you're guilty of a history of...being a Democrat. Also, using "guerilla" as a metaphor for nonviolent activist immunizes any future attackers from any responsibility for beating...
I'm not inclined to intensify my disagreement with Amy Sullivan, but a couple points in her reply demand a clarification. Some of her claims I don't even understand. If she's.
Some new CNN data. It still looks like 50-49-1 to me, with Tennessee looking like a write-off. The one ray of hope is Virginia--the polls are still even, and given.
Shorter Ann Althouse: Why can't those pretentious writers and directors stop making television shows and movies, and just go straight to the blog summaries? Movies are only good for using as a pretext for remarkably implausible GOP cheerleading anyway. What I really like about the...
It's post about annoying indie cinema reminds me that I'm vastly behind on my movie posts. (Alas, I haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine yet, but I can confirm that Miranda.
I have a lot of problems with Amy Sullivan's recent piece about the opportunities allegedly presented by David Kuo's new book. First of all, I reject her entire premise that.